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Prepositional phrase
[edit]by chance
- Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning.
I stumbled across the exit by chance.
- Possibly; perhaps.
- Synonym: by any chance
Are you by chance looking for the exit?
unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)
- Arabic: صُدْفَةً (ar) (ṣudfatan)
- Belarusian: выпадко́ва (vypadkóva)
- Bulgarian: случа́йно (bg) (slučájno)
- Catalan: per atzar, per casualitat (ca)
- Cebuano: salagma
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 碰巧 (zh) (pèngqiǎo), 湊巧／凑巧 (zh) (còuqiǎo), 恰巧 (zh) (qiàqiǎo), 剛好／刚好 (zh) (gānghǎo), 偶然 (zh) (ǒurán)
- Czech: náhodou (cs)
- Danish: tilfældigt
- Dutch: toevallig (nl)
- Esperanto: okaze, hazarde
- Finnish: sattumalta (fi), sattumoisin (fi)
- French: d’aventure (fr), par hasard (fr), par rencontre (fr)
- German: zufällig (de), von ungefähr
- Greek: τυχαία (el) (tychaía)
- Hungarian: véletlenül (hu)
- Ido: hazarde (io)
- Italian: per caso, casualmente (it)
- Japanese: 偶然 (ja) (ぐうぜん, gūzen)
- Korean: 우연히 (ko) (uyeonhi)
- Latin: fortuītō, temere (la)
- Macedonian: случајно (slučajno)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilfeldigvis
- Nynorsk: tilfeldigvis
- Persian: اتفاقاً (fa) (ettefâqan)
- Polish: przypadkowo (pl), przypadkiem (pl)
- Portuguese: por acaso, casualmente (pt)
- Romanian: din întâmplare, din noroc
- Russian: случа́йно (ru) (slučájno)
- Scottish Gaelic: le tuiteamas
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слу̏ча̄јно
- Roman: slȕčājno (sh)
- Slovak: náhodou
- Slovene: slučajno
- Spanish: por casualidad
- Swahili: kwa nasibu
- Swedish: av en slump
- Turkish: şans eseri
- Ukrainian: випадко́во (vypadkóvo)
- Urdu: اچانک (aćānak), اچانک سے (aćānak sē)
- Vietnamese: tình cờ (vi)
- Walloon: d' astcheyance (wa)
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